Word: nato
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hear all the talk, Cuba had once again become just one of those balmy-breezed Caribbean isles. In Moscow, Nikita Khrushchev happily declaimed that no-indeed-Cuba-was-not-a-Soviet-defeat. In Paris, at NATO's meetings, allied nations heaped congratulations upon U.S. State Secretary Dean Rusk for the firm American action. In Washington, the Kennedy Administration broke out with holiday grins and congratulations for itself. "Something," exulted one New Frontiersman, "has gone right...
...something has-up to a point. The Soviet missiles and bombers that were obviously able to carry nuclear war to the U.S. or Latin America have presumably been removed from Cuba. Under U.S. pressure, the shipping of Soviet-furnished supplies of all sorts by NATO-country vessels to Cuba has been cut by more than half. Last week President Kennedy announced that the U.S. would soon issue regulations denying U.S. cargoes and ports of call to shipping companies involved in the Cuba trade...
...have been acutely sensitive about their diminishing role in world affairs. Last week they were especially upset by a twist to the lion's tail administered by none other than former U.S. Secretary of State Dean Gooderham Acheson. In a speech at West Point, Acheson bluntly appraised Berlin, NATO, and the Common Market. But Britain drew his sharpest words...
...contrast, the U.S. this month will ask France to create a mechanized army division (cost: $400 million) for use by NATO in the common defense of Europe...
Judging from past experience. De Gaulle's reply will be non; he has refused to return to NATO two divisions that he withdrew for use in the Algerian war, still keeps his fleet out of NATO's Mediterranean defense screen, and prohibits use of French bases for storage of U.S. nuclear weapons...